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This is the June 2, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. In a time where Americans and their leaders agree on almost nothing, who would have thought UFOs would unite us? The truth is out there and former …
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It’s a simple enough concept as the world begins its recovery from the pandemic: storing COVID-19 vaccination records online so they can be easily accessed on smartphones and other devices. Backers see it as a much more efficient proof of vaccination than the paper slips issued by the Centers for …
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It’s a simple enough concept as the world begins its recovery from the pandemic: storing COVID-19 vaccination records online so they can be easily accessed on smartphones and other devices. Backers see it as a much more efficient proof of vaccination than the paper slips issued by the Centers for …
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Donald Trump’s lawyers Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell said a lot of outrageous things in the weeks after the 2020 election, when the president was desperately trying to cast doubt on the outcome of the race. Among other things, they peddled baseless conspiracy theories about two companies …
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Last year, I was working on a coronavirus story for the PBS NewsHour when my father texted me a since-removed YouTube video titled, “How to wipe out the corona virus THT in 10 min.” A chiropractor with a graying beard named John Bergman — with more than half a million YouTube subscribers and an …
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Liliana Carrillo’s unraveling over the last year alarmed people in her life. On Facebook, she spoke of “random invasive feelings of despair and pain.” She said she was “hating being a parent” to her brood of young children and wished she could go back in time. “I have absolutely no patience or …
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Barack Obama was about to become president, and Kathryn Olmsted was worried. The historian, an expert on the combustible blend of politics, conspiracy and paranoia, feared her new book on the subject would soon be irrelevant. With George W. Bush leaving office, she figured, the chatter about the …
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The conspiracy theories of Qanon have divided families, leaving parents, spouses and siblings unsure of what to do. The L.A. Times spoke with some family members about their experiences and the struggle of trying to pull loved ones back from the right-wing movement the FBI has labeled a “domestic …
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Warning: This story contains spoilers from future installments of HBO’s “Q: Into the Storm,” whose first two episodes aired Sunday. The new HBO docuseries, “Q: Into the Storm,” attempts to answer one of the most urgent questions of our time: Who controls QAnon, the elaborate but baseless conspiracy …
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To the editor: The fine report on evangelical Christians being vulnerable to QAnon and other such conspiracy theories concludes with a quote from a Southern Baptist pastor lamenting his flock’s vulnerability to these theories. The pastor needs to look no further than into the central tenet of his …
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